Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLI want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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